Genesis 27:14-29

New International Version

¹⁴ So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.^{(A) 15} Then Rebekah took the best clothes^(B) of Esau her older son,^(C) which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob. ¹⁶ She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.^{(D) 17} Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.

¹⁸ He went to his father and said, “My father.”

“Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”^(E)

¹⁹ Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn.^(F) I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game,^(G) so that you may give me your blessing.”^(H)

²⁰ Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?”

“The Lord your God gave me success,^(I)” he replied.

²¹ Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you,^(J) my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.”

²² Jacob went close to his father Isaac,^(K) who touched^(L) him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” ²³ He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau;^(M) so he proceeded to bless him. ²⁴ “Are you really my son Esau?” he asked.

“I am,” he replied.

²⁵ Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.”^(N)

Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank. ²⁶ Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss me.”

²⁷ So he went to him and kissed^(O) him^(P). When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes,^(Q) he blessed him and said,